Can't you just bump the fee with RBF?
Exactly.
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It's not mine.
Its for a noob friend on the other side of the planet.
I might have to get him on a call. This is probably the cheapest option.
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you can do a CPFP from your side to bump it, if you are the destination of the payment. Use Electrum or Sparrow and just click on that pending tx and bump the fee with an UTXO from your wallet.
Read more about CPFP here https://bitcoinops.org/en/topics/cpfp/